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December 2004 :: ConEd Pulls The Plug On Broadband
New York's giant Consolidated Edison power company is exiting the broadband
industry, selling off its Con Edison Communications (CEC) subsidiary to
FiberNet for $37 million in cash. ConEd is one of the last major, and
believed to be the biggest, power utility still left in the telecom game
selling managed services to large corporate users. The theory behind the
sale is that a network services specialist such as FiberNet will be a more
nimble and competitive player in the market.
http://www.telecomweb.com/news/1102964414.htm

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c10065) has
announced the addition of The Market For Broadband Over Powerline to their
offering. The 1st Edition The Market For Broadband Over Powerline report is
a comprehensive 100-page study of the potential market for BPL technology.
The report looks at the past, present, and future state of Broadband Over
Powerline (BPL) in the U.S. and provides a forecast of the market for BPL
through 2012.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_vie
w&newsId=20041124005286&newsLang=en

Home Automated Living (HAL) publisher of award winning natural speech home
control software products including HAL2000, HALdeluxe and HALpro, announces
support for home control hardware operating on the newly developed, highly
reliable Universal Powerline Bus (UPB).
http://hiddenwires.co.uk/resourcesnews2004/news20041125-01.html

Simply Automated, Incorporated expands its UPB (Universal Powerline Bus)
product line once again with the introduction of the SimplyBrilliant family
of UPB Dimming WallSwitches, providing ultra-reliable control of new and
existing lighting fixtures, lamps, fans and other electrical devices in the
home with no new wires.
http://hiddenwires.co.uk/resourcesnews2004/news20041125-02.html

Sojitz Corporation of America is proud to announce they have been appointed
the Master Distributor for Corinex Communications' line of AnyWire
Connectivity network devices for the US market.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041129/dem011_1.html

Intellon Corporation, the world leader in powerline communications, has
announced that it has joined BridgeCo, a leading provider of wired and
wireless digital home entertainment networking solutions, to introduce the
industry's first HomePlug®-enabled audio Digital Media Player (DMP). The
design is based on Intellon's INT 5200 chipset, which enables whole-house
audio sharing via existing powerlines, and BridgeCo's silicon and software
platform, which provides home networking capabilities to consumer audio
products.
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20041129202929546
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041129_135748.html

CDKnet.com, Inc. (OTCBB:CDKN) announced that Oleg Logvinov, president and
CEO of its subsidiary Arkados Inc., will address industry professionals at
the annual Net@Home conference, held December in Nice, France.
http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news_releases.mhtml?d=68424

Chandigarh, December 5: A New Zealand-based firm is all set to bring to the
country a technology that will enable transfer of data through electricity
lines. Powerline Communications Limited has already got international
intellectual property rights for the technology. They have also applied for
patenting the technology in the country.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=109208

Amperion, a start-up that makes equipment to deliver broadband service over
powerlines, this week announced $10 million in new funding.
http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/1203bbpwr.html

A broad deregulatory agenda is expected to continue at the Federal
Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission") and in Congress as
Republicans retain control of the White House and increase their
representation in Congress. Republican control is expected to translate into
support for further easing the media ownership rules, federal preemption of
state and local telecommunications regulations, reform of the intercarrier
compensation regime and elimination of unbundling obligations on incumbent
local exchange carriers ("ILECs"). The chief exceptions to the deregulatory
agenda likely will be in the areas of content regulation and indecency in
the media.
http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp?articleid=29861

Communication Technologies, Inc. (COMTek), a leading-edge telecommunications
and information systems company that is the dominant U.S. firm in deployment
of broadband over powerline (BPL) technology, today announced that the
company has been recognized for the first time by Inc. magazine as one of
the 500 fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Dec/1098117.htm

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--Nov. 16, 2004--Conexant Systems, Inc.
(NASDAQ:CNXT), a worldwide leader in semiconductor solutions for broadband
communications, enterprise networks and the digital home, today announced
changes to its senior management team, including the appointment of a new
chief operating officer and new general managers for several of the
company's business units.
http://www.conexant.com/news_events/

The uses are unlimited. With the marriage of Powerline and Wireless, the final solution to networking has been achieved. The power line outdoors and the wires used for electricity inside your home or business, are now network capable.

What about the Utilities?

The Utility companies are now seeing the potential of entering into the telecommunications market by supplying Internet via the power lines which are already in place. This proves to have enormous potential for many countries in the world who have no solid Internet system. Now these countries will be able to use their electricity grid to make the Internet accessable.

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